Opportunities for Pervasive Computing in Chronic Cancer Care
Pervasive '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Reflecting on pills and phone use: supporting awareness of functional abilities for older adults
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How to evaluate technologies for health behavior change in HCI research
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Understanding my data, myself: supporting self-reflection with ubicomp technologies
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
RunWithUs: a social sports application in the ubiquitous Oulu environment
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Embedded assessment: overcoming barriers to early detection with pervasive computing
PERVASIVE'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Pervasive Computing
Moving on from weiser's vision of calm computing: engaging ubicomp experiences
UbiComp'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Semi-supervised fall detection algorithm using fall indicators in smartphone
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
Pervasive Computing for Hospital, Chronic, and Preventive Care
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
Beyond self-monitoring: understanding non-functional aspects of home-based healthcare technology
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
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The herein presented study explores socio-technical complexities that may occur when introducing preventive health-measurement technologies in older adults' daily routines and everyday lives. Using mainly blood pressure measurements in private homes, the study applied qualitative and quantitative methods to understand existing challenges and uncover opportunities of self-monitoring technologies to support preventive healthcare activities among older adults. Emerging challenges from our study were: rule complexity for self-measuring, reliability of measurements, interpretation, understanding and health awareness, the sharing activity for prevention, motivational sources, the role of the doctor for prevention, older adult's use of technology, the home as a distributed information space, and visualization of health data. An awareness of these challenges can help designers to develop better tools to support people's preventive self-monitoring needs compared with existing solutions. Furthermore, supporting the active and informed citizen can improve older adult's care abilities, awareness and activation towards preventive care.